North Tyneside

Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird has written a guest blog for a website aimed at tackling Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). 28 Too Many is a values based charity working to end FGM. The primary focus is on research and enabling initiatives in the North East to end FGM […]

Residents in the North East are being asked for their views in the largest ever survey into crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB) in rural areas. The survey, launched by the National Rural Crime Network (NRCN), is calling for people who work or live in rural areas to come forward and […]

Pictures: Nathan Williams/RNLI. Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeguards will be returning to keep watch over beaches in Tyne and Wear from this weekend (Saturday, May 23). The charity’s lifeguards will be operating daily beach safety patrols between 10am and 6pm from the Bank Holiday weekend through to September 6, on […]

A dad who delivered his baby after his partner went into labour in their living room floor has revealed the couple’s weekly dose of TV show One Born Every Minute meant he knew exactly what to do. Charlie Willcocks, 24, watches the Channel 4 observational documentary series every week as it […]

A Japanese company providing alternative learning methods has opened four centres in Tyneside after a successful trial with 70,000 students in the UK. Kumon Educational UK, the company behind the programme, provides English and Maths tuition outside of the regular teaching framework adopted by schools. Rachel Evans, communications officer at […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a pair of rouge traders targeted a house in North Tyneside. The incident happened between 10.15am and 11.30am on Saturday, March 14 in Hampton Road in Cullercoats. Two man claiming to be TV engineers attended an address to repair an aerial. While they were there they […]

Two security guards have been robbed by two armed men while they were dropping off cash at the Forum Shopping Centre in Wallsend, on February 8. The robbers threatened the guards with what is believed to have been a machete and then ran away with the cassette of money dropped by one of […]

It’s less than 100 days to go until the General Election, when voters across the UK will choose who’s going to run the country for the next five years. Already, the battleground has been set, with a focus on the TV debates, and more importantly, who should appear. The fact […]

Bobby Cato, the man behind a social media campaign to save a disused Whitley Bay pub, has expressed his disappointment that it’s demolition is underway. The Save the Avenue pub campaign, which had attracted 588 followers, as well as 265 Facebook likes, encouraged people to plea to North Tyneside Council […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a shop robbery in North Tyneside. The robbery happened just before 7am on Friday February 6, at Diane’s Newsagency on Angle Terrance in Wallsend. A man entered the shop, with what appeared to be a handgun, demanding cash. The man in question left with […]